"We Were Forced Politically To Take Up Yatra...": Rahul Gandhi In US

Rahul Gandhi in US: Rahul Gandhi said that the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Nyay Yatra were the only ways to connect with Indians.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington DC, said that our party was politically forced to take up the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Nyay Yatra because all the instruments that normally work in a democracy were not working. LIVE: Interaction With Media | Headliners Newsmaker | National Press Club | Washington DC, USA https://t.co/RfTpIr2Znk

He said that the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Nyay Yatra were the only ways to connect with Indians.

"We were forced politically to take out the Yatra because all the instruments that normally work in a democracy, they just were not working....The media was not working, the courts were not working...nothing was working so we said, okay, let's go direct. We went and it worked...It worked beautifully. This was at the political level and my work level but as an individual, at the private level, I always wanted to do it. I always wanted to do it since I was young. I always had this idea that I must, at some point in my life, walk across my country and see what it's about..." Mr Gandhi said on Tuesday (local time).